Submitting Your Work

Members of the Religion in Society knowledge community create and share knowledge in three ways: at our annual conference, through writing and peer reviewing books and articles for our journals; and in online interactions including Scholar, community newsletters, and our news feed.

Conference Presentations

We accept proposals for presentations at the annual conference throughout the year, with regular intermediate review deadlines. The content of your proposal should address the topics outlined in the Proposal Guidelines, fit into one of the presentation types, and include all requested biographical information.

Journal Articles

We invite scholars and practitioners to submit an article for peer-review and possible publication in one of the journals in the International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society. If you are attending the International Conference on the Religion in Society, you may submit a complete academic article based on your accepted presentation proposal. If you are not attending the conference, you may submit a paper based on your accepted proposal for article submission.

If your article is accepted after peer review, publication in the International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society requires community membership. If you attend the conference in person, you receive knowledge community membership until one year after the end of the conference. If you are not attending the conference, we offer a stand-alone membership option.

Books

Common Ground Publishing welcomes proposals or completed manuscript submissions of the following: individually and jointly authored books, edited s addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme, or s of papers published in one of our journals.

Online Presentations

As a supplement to either in-person presentations at the conference or to article submissions by members not attending the conference this year, we encourage members of the Religion in Society knowledge community to submit online presentations for the community YouTube channel. These video submissions may be PowerPoint presentations (with or without audio) or may come in another form of your choice. We link to online presentations on each proposal's page in the List of Accepted Proposals.

Using Scholar

Scholar is a cutting edge "social knowledge" technology. In Scholar, creators use a beautifully simple ‘semantic editor’ to created multimodal knowledge representations that include text, image, video, audio, dataset—and in fact, any other digital media. Other scholars can provide feedback on their knowledge using specially designed knowledge filters. Here, people can connect and interact with peers and knowledge community admins in free-flowing knowledge dialogues. In Scholar, you can create your personal profile and publication portfolio page and create new communities. You can also post a link to your the page in the Common Ground bookstore for your published article or book. Or, if you have chosen the open access option, you may share the entire article.